Zoning Rules!
Zoning Rules!

Author: William A. Fischel

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781558442887

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"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment and provide safe neighborhoods. As home values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters’ excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. The barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Some state, federal, and judicial interventions to control local zoning have done more harm than good. More effective approaches would moderate voters’ demand for local-land use regulation—by, for example, curtailing federal tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing"--Publisher's description.

Planning and Zoning New York City
Planning and Zoning New York City

Author: Todd Bressi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1000948196

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Two unique events shaped the magnificent unnatural geography of New York City and created its sense of place: the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and the zoning resolution of 1916. The first imprinted Manhattan with a two-dimensional plan, a rectangular grid defined by broad north-south avenues, multiple east-west cross streets, and by its standard units: blocks of two hundred feet by six hundred to eight hundred feet. The second determined the city's three-dimensional form by restricting uses by district, by limiting the maximum mass of a building allowed on a given site.This book addresses the fundamental challenge facing every American municipality: Can zoning - the basic tool of municipal land-use control - balance growth and equity? As New York plans for the future, the nation's foremost commentators on urban planning, architecture, land-use law, and design discuss the accomplishments of New York's zoning laws and explore alternative scenarios for guiding the city's future development.The chapters in this book were originally prepared for a symposium on the history and future of planning in New York City. The authors provide a skillful blend of urban history, architectural review, economic analysis, and social commentary. Contributors include such experts as Jonathan Barnett, Sigurd Grava, Frances Halsband, Jerold Kayden, Brian Kintish, Eric Kober, Michael Kwartler, Larry Littlefield, Norman Marcus, R. Susan Motley, Richard A. Plunz, Peter D. Salins, Richard L. Schaffer, John Shapiro, Robert A. M. Stern, Roy Strickland, Marilyn Taylor, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., and Carol Willis. This book is essential reading for planners, architects, historians, developers, and municipal officials concerned with guiding the future of America's cities. Its lessons are vital for every city in America.

Real Estate Law
Real Estate Law

Author: Peter E. Smirniotopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-18

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 1317650158

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Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes. This book not only addresses the nature of specific legal issues directly relating to real estate transactions but also how those issues may best be identified and addressed in advance. This book breaks down the myriad of laws influencing the selection, acquisition, development, financing, ownership, and management of real estate, and presents them in context. Readers of Real Estate Law will gain a practical understanding, from the perspective of a real property developer or real estate executive, investor, or lender, of: how to identify potential legal issues before they arise; when to involve a real estate attorney; how to select an attorney with the appropriate, relevant experience; and how to efficiently and economically engage and manage legal counsel in addressing real estate issues. Written as a graduate-level text book, Real Estate Law comes with numerous useful features including a glossary of terms, chapter summaries, discussion questions, further reading, and a companion website with instructor resources. It is a resource of great value to real estate and finance professionals, both with and without law degrees, engaged in one aspect or another of real estate development and finance, who want to become more conversant in the legal issues impacting these transactions.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.

Publisher:

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13:

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Volume contains: (Abraham L. Baer against Consolidated Edison Co of NY Inc & City of NY) (Amanda Banks against Apollo Assoc Inc & Ins Carrier) (Jane Bellamy against Carrier Corp & Ins Carrier) (Freda K. Berger against City of NY ) (Freda K. Berger against City of NY ) (Freda K. Berger against City of NY ) (M.I. Bernett Inc against Robert G. Bossert & Mabel J. Bossert) (M.I. Bernett Inc against Robert G. Bossert & Mabel J. Bossert) (M.I. Bernett Inc against Robert G. Bossert & Mabel J. Bossert) (Helen Bobbey against C & A Brenninkmeyer Inc & C & A Berenninkmeyer Inc against A. Greene Co Inc) (Helen Bobbey against Turner Construction Corp & C & A Brenninkmeyer Inc & C & A Berenninkmeyer Inc against A. Greene Co Inc) (Helen Bobbey against Turner Construction Corp & C & A Brenninkmeyer Inc & C & A Berenninkmeyer Inc against A. Greene Co Inc) (Helen Bobbey against Turner Construction Corp & C & A Brenninkmeyer Inc & C & A Berenninkmeyer Inc against A. Greene Co Inc) (Betty Bowman against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co) (Betty Bowman against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co) (Betty Bowman against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co) (Albert Bradick against Rudolph H. Deetjen et al & Eugene T. Roe et al) (Albert Bradick against Rudolph H. Deetjen et al & Eugene T. Roe et al) (Albert Bradick against Rudolph H. Deetjen et al & Eugene T. Roe et al)

Zoned Out!
Zoned Out!

Author: Tom Angotti

Publisher: New Village Press

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1613322097

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Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has played in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color. It looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain. Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse frame the revised edition of this seminal work with a tribute to the late urbanist and architect Michael Sorkin and his progressive and revolutionary approaches to cities as well as a new preface about changes in city policy since Mayor Bill de Blasio left office and what rights citizens need to defend. The book includes a foreword by the late, distinguished urban planning educator Peter Marcuse and individual chapters by community activist Philip DePaola, housing policy analyst Samuel Stein, and both the editors.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Standards and Appeals

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 1394

ISBN-13:

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Preserving New York
Preserving New York

Author: Anthony Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 1136766081

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Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City’s nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and the buildings lost and saved on the way to its ultimate passage, span from 1913 to 1965. Intended for the interested public as well as students of New York City history, architecture, and preservation itself, over 100 illustrations help reveal a history richer and more complex than the accepted myth that the landmarks law sprang from the wreckage of the great Pennsylvania Station. Images include those by noted historic photographers as well as those from newspaper accounts of the time. Forgotten civic leaders such as Albert S. Bard and lost buildings including the Brokaw Mansions, are unveiled in an extensively researched narrative bringing this essential episode in New York’s history to future generations tasked with protecting the city’s landmarks. For the first time, the story of how New York won the right to protect its treasured buildings, neighborhoods and special places is brought together to enjoy, inform, and inspire all who love New York.